Client
Blackfeet Tribe

Role
➺ Art Direction
➺ Visual Design
➺ Branding
➺ Social Media

✴︎ The brief

Crowdfunding the first four-year
tribal college 

With only 252 tribal graduates across the entire country last year and an average of 400 students at Blackfeet Community College, we aimed to double the entire national average of tribal bachelor's graduates. BCC was on a mission to turn its 2-year college in a 4-year, BA degree institution. As a 2-year college, 80% of BCC’s funding comes from non-recurring grants the college staff has to work tirelessly and endlessly for. Because of the federal government's ongoing cuts to marginalized causes such as Native American education, there is no government funding to expand tribal higher education. As BCC grows, they need more classroom space, childcare services, more infrastructure, more professors and housing for students who are already traveling up to 60 miles both ways just to attend class on this 1.2 million acre reservation in a climate where snow is usually measured in feet, not inches.

Danielle Antelope, the Class of 1 for 2020

The full transformation from a 2-year college into a 4-year, BA degree institution would take $5 million, so we began with the ask of $202,520 to get accreditation and to graduate one, exemplary student, Danielle Antelope. She became the spearhead of the effort that will offer more opportunities to its people. And in turn, those people will provide more opportunities for the entire tribe.